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This chapter broadly explores issues of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping and how examples may be seen in daily life. Clinicians work with people who are different from themselves and having an understanding of how their own identity informs and reacts to the identity of another person is crucial. Understanding one’s own social privilege as a clinician, as well as how it is perceived by others, is necessary for a more equitable clinical relationship. This chapter touches on these topics, as well as race, culture, discrimination, and microaggressions. Some degree of “classification of people” is unavoidable as well as perhaps an initial suspicion of those who are “different from us” or "not like us." However, these attitudes of fear, rejection, and devaluation of entire ethnic groups, countries, or “different people” can go from unconscious and very subtle to more overt and blatant. The United States and many other countries experience a rise in over-racism and advocacy for the supremacy of Caucasian groups over devalued minorities or people of color. Increasing exposure to diverse groups, different world views, practices, and familiarity with those who are different can lead to a less suspicious and defensive reaction to different people. Clinicians also need to explore their inherent biases and unconscious beliefs that inform their reaction to how patients are perceived and what recommendations are offered.
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Maldonado-Morales, M.X., Caldera-Wimmer, S., Johnson-Cardona, S. (2019). Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping. In: Maldonado-Duran, J.M., Jiménez-Gómez, A., Maldonado-Morales, M.X., Lecannelier, F. (eds) Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23440-9_4
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